Rights campaigner sentenced to 13 years behind bars

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Rights campaigner sentenced to 13 years behind bars

China has sentenced a veteran pro-democracy campaigner to 13 years in prison on vaguely defined subversion charges, one day after releasing the widow of a Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
The People’s Intermediate Court in the central city of Wuhan announced the sentencing of Qin Yongmin on its official website Wednesday.
On Tuesday, China allowed Liu Xia, wife of the late Nobel Prize winner Li...